Review: Shana Cleveland: Night of the Worm Moon

Review: Shana Cleveland: Night of the Worm Moon
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Shana Cleveland = Alice Coltrane + Sun Ra + Octavia E. Butler … read more

Review: Gang of Four – Happy Now

Review: Gang of Four – Happy Now
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Gang of Four = Primal Scream + Filter + Bono’s falsetto … read more

The Honky Tonk Journeyman: An interview with J.P. Harris

The Honky Tonk Journeyman: An interview with J.P. Harris
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J.P. sees himself as a tradesman and approaches his music career the same way he approached working as a carpenter. He works hard and gives his work all that he has. … read more

Review: Forest Management – Passageways

Review: Forest Management – Passageways
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Forest Management = Kara Lis-Coverdale + William Basinski … read more

Review: Ex Hex – It’s Real

Review: Ex Hex – It’s Real
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Ex Hex is playing by their own rules. It’s Real maintains its own space with tight, cool rock n’ roll made of the bleeding heart of a tender soul. … read more

5 Experimental Albums That Stretch the Boundaries of Pop Music

5 Experimental Albums That Stretch the Boundaries of Pop Music
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While some of the best experimental music feels untethered from any tradition or idiom, there’s equal greatness in that which approaches storied music styles as a means for expansion. … read more

Review: Candlemass – The Door to Doom

Review: Candlemass – The Door to Doom
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The Door to Doom is a great gap-bridger of the group’s older works and the newer sound. It terrifically manages the older and more melodic realms of albums like the debut, Epicus Doomicus Metallicus/, yet distills the harder, bombastic riffs of King of the Grey Islands and the last record, Psalms for the Dead. … read more

Review: The Coathangers — The Devil You Know

Review: The Coathangers — The Devil You Know
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Needless to say I am “hooked” on The Coathanger’s The Devil You Know. It got me like a Little Ceasar’s pizza—hot n’ ready for more. … read more